Lord of War
Director: Andrew Niccol
Year: 2005
Stars: Nicholas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan, Ethan Hawke, Ian Holm
Back to watching films because I want to, and not because I can't face doing anything else! This one was surprisingly good - instead of it being what I had hoped it wouldn't be, it was what I had hoped it would be. Essentially an action movie, but with a message - albeit one that is thrown in your face a little. But then, if you know anything about this before you sit down to watch it, you should be expecting that.
The film centres on Yuri Orlov, a Ukrainian who decides to make his living internationally selling guns to, well, whoever wants them to carry on being at war. The ending isn't necessarily what you might be expecting (not completely, anyway), but the message definitely will be. Come to this expecting a standard action movie, and you'll be nicely surprised. Come to it expecting a deep, insightful, well-handled message and you'll half get what you were hoping for.
Rating: 3 out of 5
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